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Officials have said (repeatedly) that "spread" of this virus in America and other countries did NOT begin until after "latter January" 2020. FWIW, This is a brazen lie. Officials KNOW this virus was infecting Americans in every state in 2019. The real purpose of this article is to hopefully convince more Americans to NOT trust the pronouncements of the experts and authorities.

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Feb 19, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

The military was getting c19 briefs in Nov-Dec 2019. It's likely c19 was a known threat at least a month before that.

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But it never truly amounted to what they claimed.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/march/16/the-coronavirus-hoax/

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Indeed. By early April of 2020 they knew. At that point the Globalists saw a chance to advance the new world order, democrats saw a crowbar to remove a popular president, and Pfizer saw a gold mine. No going back after that.

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I think that following the advice of a good doctor who happens to be well versed in dirty politics wasn't such a bad idea.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/march/16/the-coronavirus-hoax/

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In my summary, I include the likely early case of John Perry, a man who became infected in North Carolina in early January 2020. Mr. Perry’s likely case is particularly significant because he reports that he was contacted by public health officials from South Carolina and North Carolina, who asked him questions about details of his case. Mr. Perry anecdote strongly suggest that at least some public health agencies WERE investigating early cases, which they have never reported to the public. I find it hard to believe the CDC was not aware of his case and others.

... I appreciate anyone who might pass along the link to this article to officials or journalists who might be interested in this topic.

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Feb 21, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Ralph Baric was at UNC, was he not? And early cases occurred in the Carolinas? I bet officials who knew anything were “concerned.”

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We talk about this a lot and agree it's "the missing piece" that the "experts" want to keep hidden.

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Thanks for your interest in this subject and your support of my research.

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Mar 1, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

For me, the "Missing Piece" would be how this spread in rural areas in so many states as well as in other countries, with little or no actual connection to China. The secrecy of the early cases seems telling to me, ... like targeted bioweapon releases in strategic and widespread locations. But that's just my foil hat talking. lol

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Guido, I keep trying to highlight all the early cases that occurred in rural areas/communities. And these communities are separated by thousands of miles. To me, this connotes virus "spread."

How did Tim and Brandie McCain get Covid in December 2019 in little, rural Sylacauga, Alabama?

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An additional “bibliography’ of articles I’ve written on the topic of early spread would include these seven articles, which I think may be of interest to readers interested in this topic - Bill Rice, Jr. (Feb. 17, 2023).

This article documents the lies/obfuscations of CDC officials regarding the dates virus spread began in America. This May 29, 2020 press conference was officials’ efforts to tell everyone, “no early spread in America, folks. We looked for it and it wasn’t there.” This effort at “narrative control” worked. No one “who matters” looked at all the real or best evidence of early spread.

Link: https://billricejr.substack.com/p/documenting-cdc-fibs-or-truth-stretchers

One proven case is really all you need “confirm” early spread. A deeper dive into the cases of Tim and Brandie McCain of Sylaucauga, Alabama.

Link: https://billricejr.substack.com/p/one-case-study-proves-early-spread

The “most important thing” for our rulers was getting as many people as possible vaccinated, role out mRNA “vaccines” and pave the road for for “vaccine passports” and digital control of the population. Journalism or official reports that provided compelling evidence of “early spread” would have almost certainly thwarted the agenda of those seeking to advance “the most important thing.”

Link: https://billricejr.substack.com/p/i-understand-the-most-important-thing

How I got started on my “early spread” investigations. I asked the followers on my Facebook page (before I was banned) to contact me if they thought they might have had an early case, or knew of other family members who could have had early cases. This article highlights some of the responses I received and my take-away from these responses.

Link: https://billricejr.substack.com/p/how-i-got-started-on-early-spread

Why early spread matters. In this article, I make my arguments about why this subject is so important. If all the evidence had been revealed to the public, EVERYTHING would have changed (for the better).

Link: https://billricejr.substack.com/p/why-early-spread-matters

The “back story” of my first “early spread” story. This article provides evidence from my own experiences that led me to conclude that public health officials AND the mainstream news organizations were NOT going to investigate this topic. Indeed, my most chilling take-away s is that a “search for the truth” is not important to officials or mainstream journalists.

Link: https://billricejr.substack.com/p/is-a-real-search-for-the-truth-now

If early spread happened, why no early deaths? In this article, I attempt to answer one of the most common arguments of skeptics of the “early spread” hypothesis. The argument is that it’s impossible for “early spread” to have happened because too many deaths would have occurred to have been “missed.” Check your assumptions, I write. I believe most of the deaths from late March and April 2020 (and afterwards) were probably caused by faulty medical protocols and the panic created by the narrative (iatrogenic deaths) … not by the virus proper.

I think the real Infection Fatality Rates reported by Professor Ionnaddis of Stanford show that 99.99 percent of people infected by this virus do not die from it. People were being infected by this virus in large numbers prior to March 2020 … but very few were dying from it. The virus didn't change in late March 2020; the protocols changed.

Link: https://billricejr.substack.com/p/if-early-spread-happened-why-no-early

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Thanks for all of this, Bill! Very well researched. My husband had something horrible in Nov. 2019. He is in excellent health, an athlete, and got laid up out of nowhere with a severe respiratory illness--severe coughing for months, high fever (severe shaking episodes), almost ended up in the hospital. It was not in any way a normal flu. He had been around someone else who also had it pretty bad so he knows where he caught it. I got it, too, but not as severe. We have always known it was Covid.

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Well, the flu regularly kills 40k to 80k a year, so it's definitely a worthy opponent.

However, a coronavirus by definition is a cold virus.

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And indeed, covid seems to be a Franken-Cold. lol

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As an Engineer I appreciate your diligence, attention to detail and you’re drive to “get it right”. In industry there are efforts to ‘learn’ from past issues/projects. These after-the-fact reviews have different names but are similar titled to “Lessons Learned”. Some are very shallow but the process does have merit when done correctly. You would hope that a similar process would be conducted within government agencies without requiring a Congressional committee with subpoena power. Now some snark, send this to 60 Minutes for them to do segment🤪🤪🤪!

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Feb 17, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Very interesting. 🤔 Not at all surprised though. Definitely not surprised that no one is interested in when it really started.

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I guess that 'when it started' is an open ended question. March 16th?

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/march/16/the-coronavirus-hoax/

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Way back when I first started reading substack I read a VERY convincing article with mapping of health problems starting in China and moving slowly East starting in 2018.

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That sounds very interesting, would be great to have a link to it.

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I had the link over a year ago. I've since deleted it.

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Not sure that it could be more convincing than the non-pandemic that Ron Paul is discussing

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Feb 18, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Nicely done, Bill...nicely done.

Reads like a good detective story with well worded rational clinical logic and subsequent insights.

You have put a lot into this, and I hope The Daily Skeptic and other publications pick it up and broadcast it.

The medical industry seems to be content with being dumbed down. Only a few of us want to be inquisitive and curious anymore in service to patients and the profession.

The maxim Primum non nocere ("first do no harm) is in a state of serious neglect and disrespect.

People need to start challenging their doctors to learn how to be creative, imaginative, and brilliant.

It's possible.

Thank you.

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Thanks, Johnny.

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Thank you to Citizen Free Press for picking up this story. It's now generated 33,400 page visits (with 82 percent coming from CFP). I must admit I'm gratified and even surprised that a story this long got so many "reads." I think it shows there is high interest in this topic. Of all the myriad Covid scandals, the dubious information on when this virus actually began to spread has probably received the least amount of attention.

Thanks also to 70 new subscribers! Please come back often.

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Feb 20, 2023·edited Feb 20, 2023Author

Why does any of this matter?

For me, it matters because this evidence seems to show that our “trusted” experts and authorities have not been telling the truth about the vital question of when this virus actually began to “spread.” That is, we should not trust these experts. If they are lying about this, they are probably lying about other important topics.

Still, widespread infections - if ever “confirmed” - would change:

The Infection Fatality Rate (IFR). The denominator - “cases” would be much higher. The numerator - deaths (pre March 2020) - would be low, making the IFR even lower, meaning the virus was NOT as deadly as experts said. The “fear” of the virus would have been lower.

The rationale for the lockdowns (to slow or stop spread) would be nonsensical or an impossibility since the data would seem to prove that millions of people had already been infected. Thus, the lockdowns - which caused hundreds of thousands of deaths by themselves - weren’t even necessary.

The number of people with “natural immunity” (from prior infection) would be much higher. This might have influenced the “debate” on mandatory vaccination. Why would so many people need a vaccine if a significant percentage of the population already had the best-possible immunity - natural immunity? This “early spread” data - if fully reported - might have harpooned the push for mandatory vaccines.

The data would give better clues on where the virus actually originated and when. We still don’t know the answer to this question. Maybe the virus did start in Wuhan, but maybe it didn’t. Who was responsible for this virus spreading around the world? These people or organizations, I hope everyone would agree, need to be identified and held accountable.

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great job, important work Bill. also - covid detected in wastewater, Barcelona. March 2019

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-science-idUSKBN23X2HQ

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Thanks for pointing this out. I didn't get into the "wastewater studies," but they exist. But what's interesting is all the municipalities who never did wastewater studies. But I still think the antibody results are trying to tell us the true story. That's the evidence officials intentionally ignored IMO.

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What a find!

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Feb 20, 2023·edited Feb 20, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

My dad was one such case in August of 2019. He came down with a strange illness and ended up in the ED of Kaiser in So. Cal. He called me to meet him. When I arrived, I was shocked to find a FULL waiting area and several people wearing masks. I kid you not. When I finally saw my dad, I was shocked yet again because they had him in the hall on a gurney bed with a washcloth over his head and half naked (I took a picture of it because of the incredible lack of dignity shown to him). I've never seen such a thing. I asked the nurses and doctors what in the world was going on in the ED. Why so many people during a hot summer? They said, " I guess the flu is here early this year, we aren't sure, but lots of people are sick right now." What?

What's more interesting is that my 86-year-old father rarely manifests with a fever when ill. This fever is what brought him into the ED. He was feeling so awful. And this " tough old guy" who's seen a lot in his time rarely complains. They ran a bunch of tests and thought maybe he had a kidney infection and recommended he stay the night for observation and further testing. He was started on antibiotics. The following day, the doctor was in the room, and I asked him what he thought caused my dad's illness. He said he wasn't sure, but as a precaution, they wanted to keep him on antibiotics for ten days. " So, my dad doesn't have a kidney or urinary infection," I asked, " No, he should finish the course of antibiotics," he said.

What?

I told my dad, who is hard of hearing of the situation and he said, " You mean I probably have a virus, and they are treating me with antibiotics." Get me out of here now!" So, I did. He didn't even wait for the nurse to remove his IV. He was upset by the way they treated him at the hospital.

As a side note, I distinctly remember the sequence of events on that day. It is permanently etched in my mind. And what I witnessed on that day was strange and not the norm. I have some insight as a RN. Months later, I learned of 4 other people (two in So. Cal and two in the Boston area) who had also complained of never feeling as sick as in 2019. Something was indeed about to happen.

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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this.

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My son was in the ER from an accident MLK day Jan 2020. I went to be with him and the waiting area looked like zombie land. The "FLU" was said to be really bad as well, but likely COVID. Just before I left the house to go to the ER I was watching alternate media reporting with people arriving in northern CA from China with strange symptoms of a virus that could not be treated with antibiotics and they were taking peoples temps as they exited the planes. When I asked the doctors and nurses about this while we were at the hospital for a few days, no one knew what I was talking about.

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Feb 19, 2023·edited Feb 19, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

My mother thinks she was patient zero or infected by patient zero. She fell extremely ill with severe “pneumonia” after a trip to Disney World in July 2019. She suffered extreme exhaustion and fever, among other ailments. She essentially stayed in bed for a week, which is highly unusual for her. The most sick she’s ever been and she was 60 at the time. I can’t help but think she had covid in as early as July 2019. She got covid again as did I over Christmas holidays of 2021, but neither of us had extreme illness. I was basically tired for about 3 days with a slight headache on day 1 only.

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I have family in West Virginia and several who are nurses. They said there was a severe pneumonia outbreak in various parts of the state during summer 2019 which they found odd because it was outside of flu season.

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Have you written about this elsewhere? Sounds familiar.

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Thanks for sharing. I'll save this. Did she ever get an antibody test?

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Supposedly patient Zero in the US was in Kirkland Washington.

I was 800 yards away from 'ground zero' within an hour or so of the announcement. I found out by asking someone in the grocery store if that particular store always had that much traffic at the time of day. She said, "Didn't you hear that a man died of a deadly virus nearby?" I had to restrain my laughter because I was dumbfounded to think that the first thing Joe and Jacqueline Average do when the plague that is supposed to wipe mankind from the face of the earth has been announced, is head to a crowded place where everything you are going to eat has been handled by so many people!

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Haha. They actually went to the store for necessities like beer, lottery tickets, and maybe cough medicine.

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All the chicken and basil was gone! I just so happened to be planning it for dinner because it's quick and easy. Seems like a lot of people were planning that oft personified chicken noodle soup for a preemptive strike against the Coof!

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Thanks!

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Excellent!!!

( Article attached)

There was an uproar when this information came out. Facebook banned it of course. There is also the study and other articles about early testing.

They didn’t want to know about antibodies otherwise the jab wouldn’t get approved.

Lockdowns slowed spread so they could justify need for the jab.

Also. It’s suspected Canada military came home infected from the wuhan military games but no reports on details other than respiratory issues.

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/4/24/21229415/coronavirus-antibody-testing-covid-19-california-survey

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Good catch! Things of this sort help illustrate how the entire thing is a hoax.

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And I hope to soon interview Mr. Huff, thanks to your outreach efforts to him!

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Feb 20, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Finally ! No one believes me. I had it in November of 2019.

Hyannis, MA. Cape Cod. Chills and aches followed by fever and sweats for 6 straight days. Felt like I'd been hit by a train.

No lingering effects, hence no tests, hence no vaccination.

The whole mask element was the "tell" that proved to me, at least, that the American 'decision makers' had run hysterically screaming into traffic. Again.

Seen any good balloons lately ?

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I'm confident that tens of millions of Americans think or suspect they had Covid before March 2020. I've read probably 700 Reader Comments or testimonials (most of which I've saved) of people posting this belief. My question: Are ALL of these people wrong? Anecdotes - if you have millions of them- should matter.

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Feb 21, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I was playing in a golf tournament at Black Horse near Monterey in California, November 6,7 and 8th in 2019. I met my brothers at Pebble Beach on the 9th and came home 3 days later. By the middle of the following week I had such a terrible dry cough that while I was at work, if it flared up I would walk out of our staging room at United Airlines because I couldn’t stop coughing for minutes on end. It made my ribs ache. I also lost my sense of smell totally and my sense of taste in a large measure. I had a dull headache that would never respond to any pain medication, not even my migraine medication.

The thing I actually thought was the weirdest was when I would literally be winded walking up a very short flight of stairs. Odd for me because I work out religiously, am 5’ 9” and have maintained my high school weight of 165 lbs. I was 63 years old at the time have no problems walking any golf course and carrying my own bag. I even walked and carried at notoriously hilly Chambers Bay two years ago.

I never went to the doctor for treatment but mentioned it to him in December when I went for my annual physical. I had some residual transient shoulder and neck pain that had gone weirdly from my right shoulder to my left. It was so bad I went for physical therapy and eventually a chiropractor for some relief. This pain never fully resolved and has since found it’s way into my left forearm and elbow.

I had every symptom of covid except the feeling of weight on my chest which many people seemed to have had. My sense of smell and sense of taste is to this day way below par.

I did have a blood test the following year in January 2021 and tested positive for antibodies. My wife is a veteran nurse of 22 years and never presented with symptoms but her blood tested even more robustly for antibodies. She worked many hours overtime filling in for many nurses afraid to come to work during covid.

By the way, neither of us have taken the 🥕🥕🥕.

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Thanks. Great details and another one for my growing list.

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Feb 19, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

My daughter is a flight attendant who primarily flies the entire West coast routes. After the family Thanksgiving dinner of 2019, most of us including my daughter, came down with something nasty about a week later and we were down hard for a good part of December. It mostly affected our respiratory systems and was ruled out as being the flu, but they had no clue as to what it was.

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Thanks, David. Negative flu and lasting so Long and having such "nasty" symptoms sounds like possible Covid to me. The fact your daughter is a flight attendant is also interesting.

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Feb 27, 2023·edited Feb 27, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Hmmm...what happens every fall ahead of flu season? Flu vaccine drives! And as many have just learned, vaccines shed! And spread! Now what if...the 2019 flu vaccine was the source of CV Alpha? The timing certainly fit, now doesn't it? Combined with the earliest reports showing that those who received the 2019 flu vaccine having the most severe outcomes with CV, perhaps we have sleuthed the original source of CV? But that wouldn't fit an ever-evolving, fantastical narrative that's been created, now would it?

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I've long wondered if the spike of deaths in the winter of 2020-2021 was tied to many old people getting their flu vaccines just before these deaths started to happen.

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But, they're safe and effective. So it couldn't be them. Even though we know that vaccines shed and spread. Because they're safe and effective. They told us so.

Vaccines are known to shed for at least two-and-a-half months after inoculation. Safely and effectively.

Nearly Constant Shedding of Diverse Enteric Viruses by Two Healthy Infants

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, November, 2012

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3486243/

"Poliovirus vaccine strain Sabin-2 (HEV-C species) was identified in the first sample analyzed from day 116, and the shedding continued until day 180 (73 days after tOPV administration)"

I encourage anyone to take the National Library of Medicine for a spin. Use their search function with the words, "vaccine" "vaccination" "influenza" "PCR", any combination of parameters you're curious about. You'll discover it's not just polio vaccine. You'll find many studies of equine influenza vaccine shedding in the library. (A new understanding of why horse paste is used). Unfortunately not many helpful tests of humans. But you'll discover that PCR tests are used in horses, at least, to determine if a virus appeared from natural origins or from a specific vaccine type - viral shedding from vaccines have identifiable markers PCR tests can detect. What's the odds that Delta, Omicron, these other "variants" can be traced back to vaccines? They have the tests to find out. But not the will or desire to find out; or share that information if they do know.

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